Help shrinking Devil Wears Prada

[revonhoj]

although fairly new i've had moderate success with most things so far but. I am stumped at how to reduce the size of my wifes Devil Wears Prada blu ray to fit onto a single 25gb disc. I have stripped it to the main dts hd audio track & sole movie file, this is just over 27gb. I cant re-encode with nero vision most likely due to the audio format being dts and it hangs when looking at the m2ts file. There are no english ac3 audio tracks and so im stuck. Any help and suggestions greatly appreciated:bang:

[fast eddie]

You can downsize it more by removing the credits at the end of the movie and removing any subtitles. But still might not be enought to 25gb.

Put the 27gb on multiple DVD+R DL 8.5gb each (BD-9) blank disks. Or even one (BD-R) 25gb and one (BD-5) 4.7gb

TSMUXER will split the M2TS files to the gibyte size you want, and create the Blu-ray structure for each blank media disk.
:agree:

I would NOT re-encode the movie, the bitrate would most likely be lower than the source Blu-ray and the picture quality would suffer.
Lowering the bitrate to gain 2gb of blank media space will surely hurt the quality of the picture.

Don't re-encode just downsize

[revonhoj]

Just a bummer that it is so close to the magic 25gb needed to get on one disc. my son spends so much time at his girlfriends we ose our dics for weeks hence the back up. With other films like I said I have just used nero to reduce it down slightly, easy if its a dolby soundtrack but as it only has dts nero just hangs. is there anyway of seperating the sountrack rencoding it to dolby then rejoinging them? I wondered if this might reduce the total file size

[mike_r]

Use EAC3TO to demux the streams, convert the DTS to AC3. Use TsMuxer to build your M2TS structure.


@echo off
set pathToEac=d:\TVIX\eac3to\
set pathToMovie=E:\

%pathToEac%eac3to.exe "%pathToMovie%" 1) -demux

for %%C in (*english*.dts) do %pathToEac%eac3to.exe "%%C" "%%C".AC3
if NOT exist *english*.dtr echo "No English DTS Found"

for %%E in (*english*.dtshr) do %pathToEac%eac3to.exe "%%E" "%%E".AC3
if NOT exist *english*.dtshr echo "No English DTSHR Found"

for %%G in (*english*.dtsma) do %pathToEac%eac3to.exe "%%G" "%%G".AC3
if NOT exist *english*.dtsma echo "No English DTSMA Found"

pause

[vamsilak]

the easy way
in the tsmuxer theres a tab for split and cut
theres a third option split by size every i choose that and enter 25 in the box
then mux it
automatically theat will do it

[revonhoj]

the easy way
in the tsmuxer theres a tab for split and cut
theres a third option split by size every i choose that and enter 25 in the box
then mux it
automatically theat will do it

but will it end up on 1 25gb disc or split ? which will be no good to me? sorry if that shounds daft

[Turtleggjp]

Being that close, I would think a split would be very annoying. Brings to mind the old days of Laserdiscs, where the last ~10 minutes of the movie was often on a second disc.

I would say Eac3to is going to be your saving grace here. If the movie has a DTS-HD (MA?) soundtrack, Eac3to can either strip out the DTS core, which is slightly smaller, or re-encode it to a 640kbps AC3 file. That should be enough to get it down to size. If not, then you'll probably need to transcode the video, which you could probably get down to DVD-9 size using x264. These discs are probably a lot cheaper than BD-Rs. I guess it all depends how much time you're willing to invest in this particular project.

[mike_r]

The video track alone is 24.6 GB (26,483,876,520 bytes) & the reencoded AC3 track is 500 MB (525,153,280 bytes), so you're going to have to use the 'enable cutting' feature on TsMuxer to trim off the start & end.

Mike.

[jfcarbel]

The video track alone is 24.6 GB (26,483,876,520 bytes) & the reencoded AC3 track is 500 MB (525,153,280 bytes), so you're going to have to use the 'enable cutting' feature on TsMuxer to trim off the start & end.

Mike.

A few questions about using tsMuxer's cutting feature:

About how much space on average can actually be saved doing this for a blu-ray movie?
Just wondering if this is another significant option in reducing BD50 to fit on BD25.

Any risk to audio getting out of sync?
Any one here done this successfully and what is best way to make sure you are only cutting the credits and not more? I have not seen this feature discussed much so just curious.